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• 06 April 2012

• News: YouDazzle combines social collaboration, cloud storage

  There are plenty of collaboration software tools on the market, and a growing number of cloud storage options for businesses as well. YouDazzle, a Silicon Valley startup, says it has created a tool that combines the best of both worlds.

• 05 April 2012

• News: Intel ships SSDs that help laptops boot faster

  Intel has started shipping a new series of small-capacity solid-state drives (SSDs) that can be used in laptops to reduce boot times and load applications more quickly.

• News: Fusion-io CEO: Flash is not just about storage

  The real advantage of high density NAND Flash is more its ability to carry out application workload acceleration than its capacity for storage, according to Flash storage vendor Fusion-io.

• 04 April 2012

• News: Megaupload lawyer says case could affect other storage services

  A verdict against Megaupload in the U.S. would mean other cloud storage providers can be held criminally liable for illegal content stored by customers on their networks, an attorney representing the shuttered file-sharing site said on Tuesday.

• 03 April 2012

• News: StorSimple extends portfolio of cloud-connected storage appliances

  StorSimple has introduced four cloud-connected storage appliances that offer better performance and more local capacity, the company said on Tuesday.

• 31 March 2012

• News: Atlantis combats storage bottlenecks with ILIO for Citrix XenApp

  Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) specialist Atlantis Computing is moving into virtual server optimisation with the launch of its ILIO optimisation product for Citrix XenApp.

• 30 March 2012

• News: PCIe SSD task force to tackle interoperability issues

  The Storage Networking Industry Association is forming a task force to tackle interoperability issues related to PCIe-based solid-state drives. So far, 50 industry representatives have agreed to participate.

• 28 March 2012

• News: Cloud storage vendor wants to ease mobile collaboration

  When files are stored in the cloud, many companies need access to them on mobile devices. And once they're on those devices, users want to be able to edit the files and place them back into the cloud. That process has been difficult at times, experts say, but cloud collaboration vendor, Box, is making some moves to address it.

• 27 March 2012

• News: Is there a 'best' way to set up your private cloud storage?

  Given that cloud computing is still emerging, it shouldn't come as a surprise that opinions vary widely on the best way to architect the storage. In fact, it seems likely that there is no such panacea -- different types of private cloud almost always require different approaches.

• 26 March 2012

• News: HP's server strategy focuses on SSDs, storage bottleneck

  In its upcoming ProLiant Gen8 Smart Array, HP uses solid-state drives and a caching algorithm it calls Dynamic Workload Acceleration to address I/O throughput issues.

• 14 March 2012

• News: PCIe SSD consortium, product test lab created

  The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is forming a consortium charged with developing an interoperability test suite for Non-Volatile Memory Express Consortium (NVMe) PCIe-based solid-state devices (SSDs).

• 09 March 2012

• News: Micron releases first 2.5-in PCIe SSD

  Micron this week announced the first PCIe SSD in a 2.5-in hard drive form factor.

• News: OCZ talks up 2TB, 4TB SSDs, previews Thunderbolt-enabled drive

  OCZ announced new PCIe-based flash cards this week, while at the same time it showed off a new Thunderbolt-enabled SSD at CeBIT. It also talked up two upcoming SSDs with 2TB and 4TB capacity, respectively.

• 06 March 2012

• News: Elgato offers Thunderbolt SSD

  Elgato on Tuesday announced its entry into the storage market with its new Thunderbolt SSD, a solid-state drive designed for use with Macs equipped with a high-speed Thunderbolt connector.

• 28 February 2012

• News: Intel hopes for SSD boost in memory asset sale to Micron

  Micron Technology has bought out Intel's stake in two wafer factories that are part of a NAND joint venture between the two companies in a move they said will expand the supply of flash memory.

• 16 February 2012

• News: SSDs have a 'bleak' future, researchers say

  As the circuitry of NAND flash-based, solid-state drives shrinks, performance drops precipitously -- meaning the technology could be doomed, according to new research.

• News: SanDisk shows its fastest ever consumer SSD drive

  SanDisk has announced a super-fast SSD drive for consumers that once again puts the company’s drives near the top of the performance currently on offer from the technology.

• 09 February 2012

• News: Hitachi releases first 25nm SLC SSDs for storage arrays

  Hitachi GST announced the Ultrastar SSD400S.B, which uses high-endurance SLC NAND flash memory to create an enterprise-class drive that also comes with native encryption.

• 07 February 2012

• News: Maingear's six-core laptop has 1.8TB of SSD storage

  Due to a reporting error, the story, "Maingear's six-core laptop has 1.8TB of SSD storage," posted to the wire on Tuesday, incorrectly reported the total hard-drive storage available on Maingear's Titan 17 laptop. The laptop can be configured to include 2.25TB of storage through three 750GB hard drives.

• News: IBM boosts flagship array speeds by 3X with SSD caching

  Enhancements to IBM's XIV Storage System include an SSD caching option that can increase system performance by up to three times.

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